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Mehdi Hasan attends Variety & Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit at Second on August 2, 2023, in New York City.after he spewed a hateful, Islamophobic comment at journalist Mehdi Hasan on Monday night when Hasan expressed his support for Palestinian rights.added that, on the other hand, as a “supporter of Palestinians,” he is used to being baselessly labeled as an antisemite.
“This is what we’re in now, this is America in 2024,” said Hasan. “Forget the racism — it’s, I should die.” As Girdusky tried to walk his statement back, Hasan added, “at least have the guts to support your racist comment.”about being banned, saying that his statement was a “joke” despite having tried to backtrack on it while on air.
Though Girdusky was unique in saying it live on a major news network, the “joke” has been repeated many timesthat high-powered supporters of Israel have spewed against Arabs, Muslims and anyone supporting Palestinian rights that has skyrocketed in the past year.helped to foment this racism, paving the way for such hatred as Girdusky’s to be spoken live on air.
Tapper and Nessel were seemingly twisting a comment Tlaib made this spring, when she criticized the democratic attorney general for deploying law enforcement to violently break up pro-Palestine student protests at the University of Michigan. Tlaib said nothing of Nessel’s identity.
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